Javier Vazquez, a Black Belt who started training in 1997, 15-4-0 MMA record fights at WEC 50. This is the unaired video available from Versus.com.

Just a fun match to watch the integration and execution of BJJ and a good stand-up game. Javier takes his opponent apart placing pressure and emphasis on his weaknesses with a final submission that takes great technique to pull-off in that position.

Check out the video of Draculino training for his Strikeforce Fight on August 21st in Brazil. Draculino has augmented his training with Frankie Edgar at Ricardo Almeida's academy. The two have trained well together according to Drac, "He showed me a lot of really cool techniques that I think will be really useful for my fight. I also had a great experience training with Frankie Edgar. He is an incredible athlete and he showed me a lot of things that will translate perfectly over to my fight. In addition to some great techniques we passed back and forth to each other, we also had live sparring for 3 rounds that was really awesome. Frankie and Ricardo are both great guys and I’m blessed to have the opportunity to train with talented guys like that."

OTM Fight Shop Corona is celebrating its 2nd Birthday in grand style. Saturday, hundreds and hundreds of people turned out for a chance to meet UFC's current Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva. People started lining up at 8am and by 11am the line went out the parking lot.

Dan was training at the AMA Fight Club in New Jersey. The website for the club is: http://www.amafightclub.com/ - It is the home for the Miller brothers - Jim and Dan, Rafaello “Tractor” Oliveira, Charlie “The Spaniard” Brenneman amongst others. The club embraces the New Jersey culture and it is nicely located in a strip mall, next door to a Diner (not easy to cut weight with the smell of bacon in the backdoor though) in the Northern part of the state.

The 24-year-old Ralek Gracie, son of Rorion and a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt (and a nephew of Royce), came pro in 2007 and submitted Katsuyori Shibata. In mid-2008, he submitted Alavutdin Gadzhiyev at DREAM.4. His bout with Sakuraba will be his first in nearly two years. Ralek's interview is insightful and he looks ready.

Drysdale speaks up about the 2010 Pan am Jiu Jitsu Championship... His recent injuries that lead to a cancelled MMA fight and a potential Muy Thai fight, Robert seems ready to fight anyone, anywhere, anyhow.

The Rickson Gracie highlight reel, Samurai Spirit is a good look at the BJJ / Jiu-jitsu and MMA style and training of Rickson Gracie. Helio Gracie is shown talking about Rickson during his reign as champion.

Georges St-Pierre, the UFC Welterweight Champion, and Gerard Mousassi, Strikeforce Lightheavyweight Champion, visited Gracie Barra students and trained for a day with the school’s owner and head instructor, Daniel “Montanha” de Lima. Gracie Barra Jiu Jitsu Miami, is a foundaction school of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, Judo and Capoeira Southrn Florida. (via CommunityNewspapers.com)